Mercedes win 2026 constructors' title after five-year gap

Mercedes have regained the constructors' championship for the first time since 2021, with Kimi Antonelli and George Russell combining at the São Paulo Grand Prix to secure the team's ninth title. The result follows a run in which Mercedes-powered teams have dominated the turbo hybrid era, with its engines also powering McLaren to the drivers' and constructors' crowns in 2024 and 2025. Only Red Bull's titles in 2022 and 2023 have broken Mercedes' engine dominance since 2014.

The ninth title puts Mercedes level with Williams on nine constructors' championships, behind only Ferrari and McLaren. Across the championship's history since 1958, just 15 teams have won the title, and Mercedes, under the 'Team Brackley' banner, account for 11 of those. The team's lineage traces back to Tyrrell, which won in 1971 with Jackie Stewart and Francois Cevert, before spells as BAR and Honda, and the 2009 success as Brawn GP.